Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Documentation says "If you are absolutely certain that you want your
>> script to load and execute a file from the current directory, then use
>> a ./ prefix". We can do that, like so:
>>
>> diff --git i/gitweb/Makefile w/gitweb/Makefile
>> index cd194d057f..3160b6cc5d 100644
>> --- i/gitweb/Makefile
>> +++ w/gitweb/Makefile
>> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ RM ?= rm -f
>> INSTALL ?= install
>>
>> # default configuration for gitweb
>> -GITWEB_CONFIG = gitweb_config.perl
>> +GITWEB_CONFIG = ./gitweb_config.perl
>> GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM = /etc/gitweb.conf
>> GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON = /etc/gitweb-common.conf
>> GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR = projects
>>
>> but that does not help if someone overrides GITWEB_CONFIG, and besides,
>> it would be nicer to avoid the possibility of an @INC search altogether.
>> ...
> Just:
>
> local @INC = '.';
> do 'FILE.pl';
>
> Would do the same thing, but seems like a more indirect way to do it if
> all we want is ./ anyway.
Yeah, it does look indirect. Despite what you said, it also would
support users giving an absolute path via GITWEB_CONFIG.
With "use File::Spec", perhaps something like this?
gitweb/gitweb.perl | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 2594a4badb..239e7cbc25 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -719,6 +719,10 @@ sub filter_and_validate_refs {
sub read_config_file {
my $filename = shift;
return unless defined $filename;
+
+ $filename = File::Spec->catfile(".", $filename)
+ unless File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute($filename);
+
# die if there are errors parsing config file
if (-e $filename) {
do $filename;
